Blackburn's mixed aircraft record before the Buccaneer

How could Blackburn produce so many criticized aircraft and still finish with the successful Buccaneer?

Its record was mixed rather than uniformly poor: the Shark and Swordfish production were strengths, the Firebrand suffered from timing and engine choices, and Blackburn was later absorbed into British Aerospace.

Blackburn's record was more varied than the claim that the Buccaneer was its only success suggests. The Blackburn Shark and the firm's large contribution to wartime Swordfish production count among its strengths. The Firebrand may have fared better if it had arrived earlier and received the engine for which it was designed. Blackburn was eventually absorbed into the industrial grouping that became British Aerospace.